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  • Should You Buy Bonds As Well As Stocks
    By: Caterina Christakos | - Are Bonds a lucrative investment? First, think about what your short term and long term goals are before deciding to invest in bonds. For the most part, it is never a good idea to put all your assets into any one investment instrument. Diversification is important. If you do decide to include some bonds in your portfolio, be sure to include several bonds, each with different characteristics, i.e., Government bonds, municipal bonds, or corporate bonds, to name a few. This puts your capital at ...
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  • All About Municipal Bond Yields
    By: arcel | - Municipal bonds are wonderful debt obligations. And how is that? Aside from having yields that are so attractive you wouldn't think that they came from the government, muni bonds are also known to provide tax-free income or in other words, high yields that are not subject to tax. So, why is it that you don't know of it? Well, you're not alone, really. Municipal bonds aren't that popular and we're here to promote them.

    Municipal securities are debt packages issued by states, cities ...

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  • Should I Buy Bonds As Well As Stocks
    By: Caterina Christakos | - Are Bonds a lucrative investment; first, think about what your short term and long term goals are before deciding to invest in bonds. For the most part, it is never a good idea to put all your assets into any one investment instrument. Diversification is important. If you do decide to include some bonds in your portfolio, be sure to include several bonds, each with different characteristics, i.e., Government bonds, municipal bonds, or corporate bonds, to name a few. This puts your capital at ...
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  • Stock And Bond Trading As A Conservative Investment Strateg
    By: Nicci | - It's likely that either curiosity or skepticism led you to this article, and I would agree that, for most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, Penny Stock Speculating, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would have at its very core: Little if any attention is given to the fundamental Quality of the equities selected. Any Diversification that exists ...
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  • 3 Things You Could Have Known 1 Year Ago
    By: Michelle Welder | - It's a sign of hard-fought wisdom when you hear yourself say, "If only I knew then what I know now." In fact, many of us are saying to ourselves right now, "If only I knew a few months ago that the stock market would turn so bearish"

    Subscribers to Bob Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist often get the flip side of that feeling, as in, "Boy, am I glad I was prepared for what's happening in the economy and the markets today." Let's look at three examples taken from Bob's Theorist ...

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  • What Is A Mutual Fund
    By: Tarun Jaswani | - The core of the money market consists of banks borrowing and lending to each other, using commercial paper, repurchase agreements and similar instruments. These instruments are often bench marked (i.e. priced over and above) to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).

    Finance companies, such as GMAC, typically fund themselves by issuing large amounts of asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) which is secured by the pledge of eligible assets into an ABCP conduit. Examples of eligib ...

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  • Mutual Funds Summed Up
    By: Esteri | - Definition of mutual funds

    Mutual funds can be said to be an assortment of securities resourcefully managed by the sponsoring management company or Investment Company that issues shares to investors.

    This assortment is made through the trade of collecting funds from investors and pooling them for the rationale of building a range of securities according to affirmed objectives.

    Who does this?

    Mutual funds fit in to a gathering of moneta ...

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  • What Are Investment Bonds
    By: Sean Rasmussen | - Essentially, investment bonds are loan agreements made between companies or governments and investors. In this case, it is the government or company that borrows money from the investor for set period of time to be used for funding purposes. In a sense, the company or government is indebted to you, the individual bond owner. Typically, the party issuing the bond offers them to the public for an approximate sum of $1,000. Thereafter, once the investment bond has been purchased by the investo ...
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  • Texas Invests In Its Future: The Young See Hope For Retirement
    By: Pat Carpenter | - No wonder so many of us run from discussions on financial matters, ignore our bills, and spend too much money, as if in rebellion. It's scary out there.

    Last year, the Employee Benefits Research Institute released the results of a study concluding that the majority of Americans are unprepared for retirement, are not saving enough for it, and have unrealistic expectations about how much they will need to live comfortably in their golden years. Texas is no exception. With its high p ...

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  • Stock And Bond Trading As A Conservative Investment Strategy
    By: Erica | - Source: http://www.sancoservices.com/StockBondTradingInvestmentStrategy.htm

    It's likely that either curiosity or skepticism led you to this article, and I would agree that, for most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, Penny Stock Speculating, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would have at its very core: Little if any attention i ...

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  • Bonds - Investing In Bonds For A Secured Future
    By: Joe Kenny | - There may have been more than one occasion when you might have had to borrow money from a friend: at the coffee shop, in the office, or even for the cab service. When you run out of money, borrowing is usually your only way out. Juxtaposing the same with big corporations and the federal government, one would find it is not that easy for them. Not only have they to repay the money owed, but to top that amount with interest. That is why companies are made to sign a bond' by law, promising the re ...
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  • Achieve Amazing Interest By Investing In Corporate Bonds
    By: David Gass | - Debt obligations issued by public and private corporations are known as corporate bonds. Whenever a corporation is in need of extra money, they raise funds by issuing them. When an investor purchases them, the investor is loaning money to the company. Companies generally issue them in multiples of $1000 or $5000. Companies use the funds raised through the sale for various purposes. These include the purchase of equipment, building a facility, and the expansion of the business.

    The ...

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  • Weighing The High Risks And High Returns Of Junk Bonds
    By: David Gass | - Junk bonds are similar to regular bonds. They are IOUs from an organization or corporation, which specify the principal amount it shall pay back. The date on which this payment of principal will be made is known as the date of maturity. The interest amount to be paid is known as the coupon. The interest that junk bonds generate is higher than that of the usual ones. These high interest payments compensate the investors for the extraordinary risks they take. These are high yield due to the high r ...
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